My ancient scanner doesn't even work with Windows 10, so I'm sure it's useless these days. I need a new one, but I'm not sure what's solid. My work is generally either pencil or inks/Copics these days, so I don't think I need anything fancy. I just want a nice, simple, easy to use program and scanner. What-you-drew-is-what-you-get scanning capability.

Is it just plain more expensive for a "good" scanner? Or can you get by with a low-cost one if all you're doing is simple art and not photographs? Money's been a bit tight lately, so I don't want to break the bank. But I'm tired of taking pictures with my phone and trying to hold things steady .

First thing first, I have myself an old scanner without support from Windows 10. I tried to contact the customer support and they gave me a solution and it worked! So I think, you may want to try that first (by the way my scanner was a Canon).

And if you want to buy a new one, well for the quality I always think of Canon, and they have a good range of prices. I'm doing sketches and tradictional art with watercolor and inks and even if I must do a little post-processing for the colored one (just some levels of saturation), I have really a great render.

In either case, and if you have enough computing power, you probably might consider using VMWare Player, you can install another OS in a virtual machine there. I'm guessing you has Windows 7 before 10 so, you can install a Windows 7 there, and share a folder, on top of Windows 10 (so no need to partition or install a dual boot system) and install your scanner from here and keeping it.

There is no need to replace your scanner. At least not before trying this first. I used my old Canoscan N340 Parallel port scanner during years this way. Justa little warning, on parallel port you might experience slower scanning times, but on USB things are way smoother (they work like on real hardware).

Check your options, Virtual machines are relatively easy to use, and you don't need to mess with dual booting or stuff like that, it's like running other OS over your current one.

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I know almost literally nothing about computers- I would be absolutely hopeless at any solution that involves real work in fixing stuff. I looked up the website on how to download a "fix" for the old scanners to work on Windows 10, and it made me want to put an ax in my head. I just... I can't do anything fancy at all.

Like, I don't even know what Parallel Port means . Or Virtual Machine. Or Dual Booting. I couldn't tell you my system specs if you paid me.

Also, my scanner is REALLY, REALLY OLD, and honestly I didn't care for how odd it could be at times- I think a modern one is just a better choice. I'll look at Canon stuff!